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The Magic of Unknowing - An East-West Soliloquy (Paperback)
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The Magic of Unknowing - An East-West Soliloquy (Paperback)
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The Magic of Unknowing is a unique philosophical and literary work.
Cast in the dialogue form, it unfolds in the mood of soliloquy.
Mervyn Sprung has created an imaginative meeting of the minds of
great western philosophers: Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hume,
Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Pyrrho. All are brothers, the more
skeptical sons of Aristotle. Later they hear as well from Chang, a
Taoist, and Nagaraj, a Buddhist, both lately adopted into the
family. The dialogue dramatises the erosion in modern times of
Aristotelian rationality under the pressures of its own logic. The
two eastern thinkers throw the weight of their own skepticism into
the discussion at the critical point. In the end the brothers
realize that they have moved away from Western philosophy's faith
in the singular power of reason to establish truth and sense in the
human world. They discover the magic of unknowing that lies in the
reciprocal penetration of knowledge and behavior, each receiving
its sense from the other. They discover that philosophies are not
the issue of reasoning alone but are themselves already inseparably
thought and action. And they realise that this entails an
unheard-of future for philosophy.
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